Improvement in portable fences



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIoE.

STARK OLMSTEAD, OF BROOKS, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,474, dated June 15, 1875; application filed April 3, 11575.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, STARK OLMSTEAD, of Brooks, Newton county, Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Fence, of which thefollowing is a specification;

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and cheap portable fence, that can readily be put up without nailing or otherwise permanently fastening it, and will stand without posts or stakes. It consists ot panels of sawed stuit', having two cross-pieces alittle distance apart at one end, to form holes between the cross-pieces, and one cross-piece near the other end, but so that the slats extend beyond it, so as to be fitted in the holes between the two cross-pieces of another panel, and be locked and bound fast therein by adjusting the panels so connected as nearly in a straight line as may be, making a zigzag fence, which is enabled to stand upright without posts or stakes in consequence of that form. Besides the binding ot' the panels together by the coupling eect of straightening' the line, a pin is drivendiagonally through the projecting end of one ofthe slats against the cross-pieces.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fence contrived according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a top view. j

A represents the panels, which are made of slats and cross-pieces of sawed stuff of any approved size and form, with two cross-pieces, B, at one end, with a suitable space between, and one crosspiece at the other end, with projections D of the slats beyond, long enough to project through the slats between crosspieces B, and receive a pin, F, in one or more of the slats, so that it cannot he drawn out lengthwise.

The panels are shifted toward a straight line as much as they can be, after being so connected, to bind the slats between the crosspieces B, and thus x the fence rigid and firm, making it self-sustaining without posts or other devices fixed in the ground.

lhe purpose of extending the posts B B, at one end of panel above and at the other end below the rails, is that they may receive between them the upper rail of one adjacent panel and the lower one ofthe other. Hence,

What I claim is- A fence-panel having a pair of posts, B B, at each end of panel, the pair at one end projecting above and at the other end below the rails, as and for the purpose specified.

STARK OLMSTEAD. Witnesses:

PETER H. WARD, WALTER G. FRAZEUR. 

